Hi to everybody. I am trying to install Puppy Linux on my Ases Eee900 netbook. I prepared a bootable usb key with last version of Puppy and booted my system from it.

Then I clicked to Install, choose an internal drive as destination and, after that, Puppy was asking me for a CD containg its own installation files. I tried to select the directory of the bootable usb, but even after founding it (in mount) and selecting it, Puppy is going on asking me for a CD.

So I prepared a bootable CD on an external usb CD/DVD drive and connected it to my Asus. It was impossible (I don't know why) to boot from the CD, so I resorted on booting again from usb key. I clicked on Install and then, when Puppy asked me for a CD, I hoped it would able to found needed files on the external CD drive. But this didn't happen, of course. I was asked to mount the CD, but Puppy mounter give me an error message every time I tried to mount something (even one of two internal disk of my netbook, neither of them was possible to mount).

So what can I try now? Thanks a lot for your kindness!
Giancarlo Perlo - ItalyLast edited by semsaudade on Thu 08 Nov 2012, 12:27; edited 1 time in total

I don't want to keep any other O.S. on my computer and I downloaded last version of Puppy Linux from site.

Today, after posting, I managed somewhere to get through installation, but then I found myself blocked in installing Grub.

I know that after install, I have to run Grub Installer, but it asks me where I want to install the Grub and I don't know what answer. I tried with \dev\sda1 (since this is the name of the disk where I installed Puppy), but it says to me that partition is only write or something like that....

Sorry but it seems too much difficult for me. In the past I already installed Puppy Linux on other computers and it was pretty straightforward. I simply had to prepare a bootable flash drive with Unebootin, boot from it and then run the Puppy full installer. That was all!

Now I tried to follow the same procedure, but after running the installer Puppy is asking me to run the Grub installer from system menu. I did so, but then I am prompted to write where I wan't to install Grub.

Since my computer has two little SSD disks (sda1 4 GB and sdb2 16 GB) and since I installed Puppy on sda, I assumed that I should give \dev\sda1 as an answer. But that doesn't work! Puppy write a message about not being able to handle such a partition.

I also tried to run USB installer (instead of full hard drive installer), but I think that don't solve my problems. In fact it didn't install any Grub after all the procedure had ended...

Now my computer is unusable. Is there any simple solution? Should not be so difficult! I just want to make a fresh installation (no preserve of old O.S or files) on a computer. What can be the problem?

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